Bevy of beauties Helena Christensen, Gwyneth Paltrow and Christy Turlington are all smiles as they attend New York City’s 5th Annual Can-Do Awards Dinner at Abigail Kirsch’s Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City on Monday.
The star-studded charity benefit, which happens to mark the 25th anniversary of the Food Bank For New York City, honoured Gwyneth as well as slew of other well-deserving recipients for their commitment to hunger relief.
Keep up the good work, Gwynnie!
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Paltrow looks so much better with her new haircut.
^ she still looks old.
Is Helena Christensen hot? Because frankly, she scares me.
too much tanner for Helena Christensen?
She should not be standing in the middle of two beautiful women. .. they make her look uglier than she is.
They’re all great-looking moms. I’m sure their kids go on playdates together. Kudos to them for their good works and their grounded, low-key lifestyles.
This woman hates america but loves to bite the hand that feeds her. The only reason she got an oscar is because of her uncle spielberg and director father , def overrated as an actress.
I didn’t find Paltrow’s comments hateful at all. As someone who’s had the privilege to live abroad (London, Madrid and then Berlin), her comments were pretty accurate. Americans ARE more focused on work, money and getting ahead and Europeans prefer more of a work-life balance, holidays and time off for their families. That’s more important to them than working an 80 hour week. You won’t find stores and shops open past 7pm and you can forget about 24/7 service. They’d rather have time off for their own personal pursuits than make extra money. I really don’t see anything hateful in Paltrow making those comparisons. It’s just simply a cultural difference.
helena is showing aging, it might be her swedish blood.
I don’t think her cultural lifestyle comparisons annoyed ppl. It was her “the British are more intelligent and civilized than Americans” remarks that most seem to find offensive. Can’t blame them. Pretty nasty stuffl.
Gwyneth and Helena are showing their age. Christy still looks beautiful.
Love Turlington’s little black dress. The other two, not so much.
i think they all look good still.
helena was so hot and sultry in the ‘wicked games’ video.
I agree anon: It is the culture. If a person is willing to be objective instead of getting defensive about it, we have gone off the wrong track. America is a country very misguided about extremes. I find it refreshing when a person can step back and be critical instead of buying into a brainwashed society. You have to really wonder about a work ethic that has accepted a two weeks vacation per year as sufficient. That is insane! In France they get a month. It’s stupid for us to allow our lives to be consumed the way it is. We deserve better, but we must be smarter and make demands.
Dude, I would hate to have my picture taken in between two supermodels.
@THE DEVIL
I wanna see you when you’re 39 and she’s not swedish,her mother is from Peru and her dad is danish.
Helena is looking real rough and beat down, odd for someone with her skin tone to look so weathered.
Anon: our standard of living is much greater then any other country. it’s not nearly as common for Euros’ to have large homes like it is for us here. Also we spend and consume much more, we have to have AC, 2 cars, huge TV’s, yet many American’s wear sweat shop clothes and have never left the country. She are mass consumer as are Japanese. Euros’ are well traveled and eat better food and less items but at higher quality.
Katherine - Paltrow never said Brits are more intelligent than Americans. That was the American media “spin” on her comments trying to incite controversy (as the American media loves to do) on comments which I found quite benign and harmless. All she said was British culture is much older than American culture and because of this, values tend to be different. Then she used the example of dinner conversation and said, Americans tend to talk about work and money, and Europeans tend to talk about art, cusine, culture and world perspectives. This is a very accurate reality and one I experienced while living in London, Madrid and Berlin. The only thing I found hateful in all this was how the American media misconstrued her comments in an effort to provide content to fill their 24/7 news programs. People really need to step back, take a breath and realize that not everything the American media tells and sells you is the truth. Remember, news outlets have corporate sponsors, shareholders and ratings to attain. And something like the truth isn’t going to stop them.
^^Amen anon. It’s really silly to believe Paltrow would say Brits are more intellligent than Americans because she would be dissing herself, as she is American. As someone who’s lived in London for seven years and Amsterdam for two, your comments are right on the money.
Anon@6:42, you’re incorrect. She was quoted in a UK publication as saying that the British were much more intelligent and civilized than Americans. This was not an American media spin but rather direct quotes from the article which didn’t hit the mainstream U.S. media until almost a year later. The quotes were later translated by Diário de NotÃcias, a Portugeuse newspaper, and reprinted in a profile they did in late 2006. That’s when the comments came to the attention of the U.S. media and caused controversy. She did initially claim a lost in translation thing along with saying she tried to say in Spanish that U.S. was a younger culture, different work ethic, etc…quotes she also did say in a “different” UK article…but the more intelligent and civilized comments were not made up by the U.S. media; they were simply correctly translated/reprinted by the Portguese publication when they researched her old interviews.
Note, I have copies of ALL the articles including Diário de NotÃcias’s response to her lost in translation claim where they explained they’d obtained the more intelligent and civilized quotes from an old UK interview. So, no, not an American media creation at all, just an old interview catching up to her.
celebs are always saying stupid things either for publicity or because their dumb, most don’t have college educations or even finished high school.
But they do have MASSIVE EGOS and live in their own little bubbles.
^^ Yea, and I believe the UK publication which published the “controversial” quote was either The Daily Mail or The Mirror, unreliable tabloids (who also quoted Paltrow saying she HATES Britain - go figure!), similar to The National Inquirer; then picked up by so-called “real” news outlets in America and spit out to viewers like it’s the truth or real news. Like anon says, you can believe what the media feeds you. Most Americans do. But I’d rather use my own critical thinking and judgment on what to believe or not to believe.
Non-Believer, you’re also incorrect. Critical thinking also involves doing the appropriate level of research.
The Guardian is hardly a dodgy tabloid publication.
^^ The Guardian never published comments of Paltrow saying she hates America in her interview 2 years ago. Therefore, those comments were expoused by some tabloid, as I said. Don’t believe me? Have a read yourself:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1695252,00.html
Incorrect again and another reason why print copies are still relevant. Paltrow never said she hated America and yes, that’s the “other article” I was referring to where she gave the quotes about culture/work ethic, so those quotes do actually exist but they are not the only quotes she gave. She also did an interview with them prior to that which is where the intelligence/civilized quotes came from.
I love Helena but she does look FUG here.
Well I’d be very interested to read the article in which she says Brits are more intelligent than Americans. Problem is, I can’t seem to find it on The Gurardian website. I’m assuming that’s the publication which you identified in a previous post, correct? I’ve been able to find other articles about her in which she stated the cultural differences, but can’t seem to find that one. Go figure.